PostScript Level 3 of pdftops broken
Submitted by Till Kamppeter
Assigned to poppler-bugs
Description
To easily reproduce the problem do (d00022-001 is PDF printing output of gedit, captured from the spool directory of CUPS):
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21294491/d00022-001 pdftops -level3 -paper A4 d00022-001 > l3.ps pdftops -level2 -paper A4 d00022-001 > l2.ps pdftops -level2 -noembtt -paper A4 d00022-001 > l2noembtt.ps
Then send the files unfiltered to a PostScript printer from HP (Ghostscript displays all files correctly on the screen). The l3.ps prints some characters as squares, the l2*.ps print correctly. This means that something is broken with the Level 3 PostScript output, at least for HP printers.
The HP LaserJet P3005 even crashes on the faulty PostScript Level3 output of pdftops.
See
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21292602/img001.jpg
for the broken output of l3.ps.